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Behind the Scenes #5: A Jaunt in Virtual Reality

Behind the Scenes #5: A Jaunt in Virtual Reality

When you primarily teach online, you often get invited or included in events about emerging technologies and their role and suitability in Higher Education. For about a year, we have been increasingly fascinated by the potential of Virtual Reality (VR) as a teaching...

News: Course Fair 01/05/2019

News: Course Fair 01/05/2019

Egyptology at the University of Manchester has been taught in many different forms and formats through the years. In the early 20th century the noted Egyptologist Margaret Murray gave public lectures at the Manchester Museum. In the 1980s and 1990s, Egyptology was...

Research Update #3: Inspired by a Replica

Research Update #3: Inspired by a Replica

Dr Joyce Tyldesley has recently published a book on Nefertiti's famous bust from Tell el-Amarna (currently in the Neues Museum Berlin), its manufacture, history and the many different ways in which museum goers and members of the public have engaged with it - and the...

Behind the Scenes #4: Guest Lectures

Behind the Scenes #4: Guest Lectures

One of the benefits of teaching online is that lectures can (and should!) be pre-recorded some time in advance of the actual scheduled class taking place (as already discussed in Behind the Scenes #1). This means that there is a greater degree of flexibility in...

Behind the Scenes #1: Creating Egyptology Lectures

Behind the Scenes #1: Creating Egyptology Lectures

In this series of blogs entitled 'Behind the Scenes' we're going to show you a little bit about how our distance learning courses are created, and about the people and institutions which support their creation. Here at Manchester we teach a lot of Egyptology online....

A Welcome from Egyptology at Manchester

A Welcome from Egyptology at Manchester

The study of Egypt has been a part of the city of Manchester since the Industrial Age. Manchester, as a centre for the cotton industry had strong trade links with Alexandria during the 19th century and many of the cotton merchants and mill owners journeyed to Egypt...